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UFC admits to being sports entertainment to get legalized in New York
Here at Cageside Seats we've often noted the similarities between Dana White and a saner, more youthful Vince McMahon. The latest textbook example is UFC filing a lawsuit earlier today against the state of New York for their ban on live mixed martial arts events, which they claim is...
Brock Lesnar in WWE '12 video game trailer: Here comes the pain
Yes, UFC President Dana White says he's totally cool with all this but it's still weird to see Brock Lesnar not only being allowed to participate in the upcoming WWE '12 video game but actually promoting it.
Is UFC trying to recreate the magic of Starrcade 1985 over 16 years later?
UFC's highly successful matchmaker Joe Silva grew up watching wrestling in the Carolinas in the late 1970s and it's clear that he was highly influenced by what he saw. The latest example of this is the recent shocking news that UFC ambitiously plans to hold two televised events in different parts...
Dana White was going to put Kurt Angle on Ultimate Fighter season 10 but he didn't pass medicals
About a month ago while Kurt Angle was making the rounds promoting the movie "Warrior," his brief flirtation with mixed martial arts came up in many a conversation. Angle, being a bullshitter through and through, naturally started making some outrageous claims. Here's what he said at the time: I...
Dana White clowns Triple H in response to his claims that UFC needs to evolve and WWE doesn't
I didn't expect this in the slightest but at the UFC 135 pre-fight press conference today (Sept. 21) in Denver, someone actually asked the panel of fighters, including UFC President Dana White, how they felt about Triple H's recent comments that UFC needs to evolve while WWE does not. After Light...
Will Showtime pull the plug on Strikeforce within six months?
The future of the Strikeforce promotion on Showtime is not looking very rosy. I would imagine Showtime is privately pissed off at Dana White for pillaging the Strikeforce roster to bolster UFC's flagging PPV business. Despite both Nick Diaz and Alistair Overeem playing hardball in negotiations...
Kurt Angle claims Dana White offered him a UFC contract and he turned it down
Current TNA heavyweight champion Kurt Angle is making his rounds promoting the upcoming release of "Warrior," a mixed martial arts movie he plays a part in. And because of that, questions are once again being asked regarding his aspirations of one day fighting inside the Octagon. Angle, who still...
WWE announces Smackdown will air live Tuesday, Aug. 30 on Syfy on the same day UFC makes deal with FOX
In an interesting development that ties the worlds of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts together once again, on the same day that UFC announced a deal with FOX, WWE and Syfy sent out a joint press release stating their intentions of airing the first live episode of Smackdown on the...
Should WWE be fearful of the NFL concussion lawsuit?
In what has been one of the most newsworthy weeks of the year so far in pro wrestling, between CM Punk "leaving" WWE with their top title belt, Sin Cara's suspension for a failed drug test, Triple H replacing Vince McMahon as WWE's onscreen figurehead leader and Dana White's secretive meeting with...
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